{"id":7236,"date":"2024-12-03T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2024-12-03T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:54:27","slug":"breaking-lakers-eye-emerging-23-year-old-center-fitting-jj-redicks-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=7236","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Lakers Eye Emerging 23-Year-Old Center Fitting JJ Redick\u2019s Desire.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2176849737_89b723-e1730125106982.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2176849737_89b723-e1730125106982.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2176849737_89b723-e1730125106982.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2176849737_89b723-e1730125106982.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Los Angeles Lakers, Bennedict Mathurin\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"193\" data-dom-ready-time=\"254\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>JJ Redick pointing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The center-starved\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0are among the several NBA teams monitoring the situation of\u00a0Brooklyn Nets\u2018 former first-round pick\u00a0Day\u2019Ron Sharpe, Hoopshypes\u2019 Michael Scotto reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharpe, who\u2019s eligible for restricted free agency this summer, is being monitored by the Grizzlies, Clippers, Pelicans, Lakers, and Raptors, league sources told HoopsHype,\u201d\u00a0Scotto wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe will make his season debut on Monday, December 2, against the\u00a0Chicago Bulls after recovering from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Sharpe was the 29th overall pick in 2021. He is coming off his best season in the NBA, averaging career highs across the board: 6.8 points on 57.1% field goal shooting, 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 15.1 minutes as\u00a0Nic Claxton\u2018s backup.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of Noah Clowney makes Sharpe, who will be a restricted free agent after this season, expendable.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 Sharpe fits the mold of what Lakers rookie head coach JJ Redick has been looking for to help ease the burden of\u00a0Anthony Davis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou certainly have to look at what I think is actually a very good roster, a very balanced roster,\u201d Redick said in an interview with\u00a0Justin Termine and Eddie Johnson on Sirius XM NBA Radio.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019d love to, we tried, but we\u2019d love to, at some point, get another five man, a big bruising five man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at the Western Conference right now, whether it\u2019s Denver, Minnesota, OKC with what they added, certainly Memphis, they\u2019re going to be back in the hunt, they added\u00a0Zach Edey, certain matchups in the playoffs, you\u2019re going to need a lot of size.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Lakers Frontline Get Thinner<\/h2>\n<p>The Sharpe rumor comes right after Davis\u2019 chief backup,\u00a0Jaxson Hayes, re-sprained his right ankle against the\u00a0Phoenix Suns\u00a0on November 26.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes is out for two to three weeks,\u00a0per ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin.<\/p>\n<p>The injury bug caught the Lakers\u2019 frontline even before the season tipped off.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Wood\u00a0(knee) and\u00a0Jarred Vanderbilt\u00a0(foot) are still out with no timetable yet for their return.<\/p>\n<p>Their injury-riddled frontcourt depth has caused the Lakers to be among the worst rebounding teams this season.<\/p>\n<p>Entering December 2 games, the Lakers are averaging 40.6 rebounds,\u00a0ranked 27th\u00a0in the league.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Nets Among Teams Interested in Jalen Hood-Schifino<\/h2>\n<p>Will the Nets\u2019 reported interest in\u00a0Jalen Hood-Schifino\u00a0grease the wheels for a potential trade for Sharpe?<\/p>\n<p>The Nets are one of the three teams who have expressed interest in Hood-Schifino in the past, according to Fischer in a separate live stream at Bleacher Report on November 2 after the Lakers did not pick up the second-year guard\u2019s third-year option, which makes him an expiring deal and a trade chip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be playing in the G League this year, and he\u2019ll have plenty of opportunity to showcase himself both in the G League in general and at the G League Showcase when the entire league descends upon Orlando in December,\u201d \u00a0Fischer said. \u201cAtlanta had interest in him in that talk with Dejounte [Murray] last year. Utah, I believe, has shown interest in him, to my knowledge, in those talks about Walker Kessler. Brooklyn, I\u2019ve been told, is a team that has interest in him. So, just keep an eye on Jalen Hood-Schifino as a potential outgoing salary expiring deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A straight Hood-Schifino-Sharpe swap won\u2019t cut it under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, as the Lakers become an over-the-apron team in such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers would have to add more salaries, like Wood\u2019s expiring contract, to make it work. Or the Lakers could get Sharpe and one of\u00a0Dorian Finney-Smith\u00a0or\u00a0Cam Johnson\u00a0in an expanded trade that would involve either of the Lakers\u2019 two available first-round picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyJJ Redick pointing The center-starved\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0are among the several NBA teams monitoring the situation of\u00a0Brooklyn Nets\u2018 former first-round pick\u00a0Day\u2019Ron Sharpe, Hoopshypes\u2019 Michael Scotto reported. \u201cSharpe, who\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Lakers Eye Emerging 23-Year-Old Center Fitting JJ Redick\u2019s Desire.. - 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